Famous quotes containing the words comparison and/or sorts:
“Away with the cant of “Measures, not men!”Mthe idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.”
—George Canning (1770–1827)
“All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)